Instead of selecting a whole new theme it would be good to be able to select just a different page template.

In many cases this would make more sense since you will not have drastic changes, and you don't want to duplicate all the css between themes.

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profix898 commented

taxonomy_theme is designed to switch themes using init_theme() and AFAIK its not possible atm to change the page templates only. But there are fundamental changes to the theme system happening in cvs (4.8). So it might be possible in a few weeks. I will take a closer look at some of the pending patches and see what I can do to enable this feature, but I'm a little busy atm.

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profix898 commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

... and you don't want to duplicate all the css between themes

You dont need to duplicate all css etc. You can simply create a subtheme which automatically inherits css, ... from the parent theme. See Garland and Minnelli (same theme one fixed-width the other floating) in Drupal 5 for an example.

In principle it is possible to write a simple script to automate the creation of subthemes and to override certain styles, ... But I dont think this functionality should be integrated into TaxonomyTheme.